Word: boom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when an overall profit squeeze failed to materialize in the first quarter, businessmen raised their sights for 1957. Now many believe that the second half of 1957 will be the better half, perhaps satisfying even those who expect a zoom on top of the boom. See BUSINESS, The Better Half...
WEST GERMAN BOOM is still on rise, with exports up 28.5% over same period last year. Trade surplus in March alone soared by record $127 million, equal to one-third of entire 1956 gain...
...comforting fact is that productivity has never risen at a steady rate. Economists estimate that between 1910 and 1953 there were eleven years when productivity actually fell, e.g., during wartime, productivity declined as the flow of materials and manpower was disrupted. Even in times of boom, as at present, productivity has often fallen; plants operating at top capacity find it hard to raise output...
...Chicago's Fifth Annual Merchandise Mart Floor-Covering Show hired a daring rigger to dress as a sultan, hover over the city on a linoleum "flying carpet" suspended from a helicopter. When fog and rain cut visibility, the sultan had to be dangled instead on a boom from the Mart's 353 ft. roof...
...torpedo, plus a diversionary crew of 13 in a cutter, Cushing stole up the Roanoke River at night. The Albemarle's defenders were ready for him: they lit a giant bonfire which illuminated the river and revealed that the ironclad was newly protected against torpedo attack by a boom of logs that surrounded the vessel...